It started out as an idea we talked about a year or so back in the dressing room after a pickup game. This idea was to attend a tournament out of town. Make a weekend of it. Perhaps even a week over March break where those with significant others could combine a beach vacation with …
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There are many flavours of memories that come with playing, coaching and watching hockey over the years. There are the people themselves that you remember, the strange plays, the great goals, saves and hits, the funny one-liners heard in the dressing room and then there are those memories involving a specific game. One of my …
I played my first 3 on 3 tournament this weekend. Geez boy, am I ever tired after four 20-minute games of that in a 24 hour period. And what a different game it is. We ended up playing for all the marbles, (the over-50 consolation final after finishing 4th in a 5 team round robin) …
The stage was set and the play was something familiar for this part of the world: Saturday night hockey. It was late in the third game of the round robin of my son's house league midget tournament this weekend in London and with the good guys leading 3-2 with a minute to go, the game …
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